women.The Yanomamo are one of few societies, which have not been affected by influences of the outside world until recent times. Due to the drastic destruction of their natural environment, the Rainforest, as well as the disease and challenges facing this culture through contact with outside cultures, the Yanomamo traditional culture is facing rapid extinction, if nothing is done to prevent this. In 1972, missionaries sent many of the Yanomamo to boarding schools for deculturing and many contracted measles, dysentery, hepatitis, malaria, influenza, and colds resulting in about half the population dying out. In 1987, forty thousand prospectors came looking for gold finding that the Yanomamo were in the way the tried to get rid of those hindering their mining operations, this introduced them to guns which led to over-hunting and less game to hunt. In 1991, Venezuela set up a preserved area for them, but more recently local governments have more local power and will probably bring more outsiders in contact with the Yanomamo. In 1993, Yanomamo were massacred in Brazil because of no protection and repeatedly lies to N. Chagnon & others trying to protect them....
